Iccho Itoh

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Itoh.
Iccho Itoh
伊藤 一長
Mayor of Nagasaki
In office
May 1, 1995 – April 18, 2007
Preceded by Hitoshi Motoshima
Succeeded by Tomihisa Taue
Personal details
Born (1945-08-23)August 23, 1945
Nagato, Yamaguchi, Japan
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Nagasaki, Japan
Political party Liberal Democratic Party[1]
Alma mater Waseda University

Iccho Itoh (伊藤 一長 Itō Itchō?, August 23, 1945 – April 18, 2007), born Kazunaga Itō (伊藤 一長 Itō Kazunaga?), was the mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki; he first took office in 1995. He was a graduate from Waseda University, and majored in political science.

Career

He served as a member of the city assembly and later the prefectural assembly before he was elected as the mayor.[2] As the mayor of the city where an atomic bomb was dropped just two weeks before his birth, he made a speech at the International Court of Justice in the Hague on November 7, 1995 and stressed that the use of nuclear weapons is a violation of international law.[citation needed]

Assassination

On April 17, 2007, while campaigning for re-election for his fourth term, he was shot twice in the back at point-blank range in front of his campaign office outside the Nagasaki train station.[2] Itoh was taken to the Nagasaki University Hospital, where he died early the next morning due to loss of blood.[3] Police arrested Tetsuya Shiroo on suspicion of the murder after he was detained by Itoh's entourage following the shooting. Shiroo was a senior member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, an organized crime group.[2] As for the motive, "Shiroo reportedly clashed with Nagasaki city officials in 2003 after his car was damaged when he drove into a hole at the construction site."[4] There are also rumours that it was related to city construction projects.[5] The Nagasaki District Court sentenced Shiroo to death on May 26, 2008,[6] but the Fukuoka High Court revoked the death sentence.[7]

A new mayoral election was held on April 22, 2007. Makoto Yokoo (橫尾 誠 Yokoo Makoto?), Itoh's son-in-law, and Tomihisa Taue (田上 富久 Taue Tomihisa?), a city official, filed for candidacy.[8] Taue was elected.[9]

Itoh was the second mayor of Nagasaki to be shot; his immediate predecessor Hitoshi Motoshima (本島 等 Motoshima Hitoshi?) was shot in 1990, but survived.

Name

His first name was originally pronounced Kazunaga with kun-yomi, but he elected to use more euphonious on-yomi form of Itchō for his mayoralty.[10]

Itoh's name was romanized as Itcho Ito by Mainichi Shimbun,[11] Reuters,[3] and Al-Jazeera.[12] CNN used the Iccho Ito romanization.[13] The Asahi Shimbun used Iccho Itoh.[14] Itoh spelled his name as Iccho Itoh in his English letter to George W. Bush.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Nagasaki mayor is shot and killed - International Herald Tribune
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  5. ↑ 明報新聞網
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  11. ↑ "Nagasaki mayor dies after being shot by gangster" Mainichi Daily News 19 April 2007
  12. ↑ "Japanese mayor shot dead" Al-Jazeera .net 18 April 2007
  13. ↑ "Murdered mayor sparks Japanese fears" CNN 18 April 2007
  14. ↑ "Nagasaki Mayor Itoh dies after being shot by gang member" The Asahi Shimbun 18 April 2007
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